Touring Glengarry: The Nor’Westers and Loyalist Museum

The Nor’Westers & Loyalist Museum

The Nor’Westers and Loyalist Museum is in Williamstown. I visited this museum on Tuesday June 5, 2012. I had emailed them to make an appointment and they were gracious enough to give me an open time frame for that afternoon. Please visit their website and enjoy the pictures. You cannot take photos.

I knew where they were in Williamstown because I went looking for them after my visit to the Glengarry Archives. They are located on Hwy #17 which crosses Hwy #19. You go west along John St. almost to Bethune St. and they are on the corner of John and Bethune.

A Plaque about the Northwest Company

I parked the car and was walking around to the front when I found two individuals, a woman and a man. I introduced myself and the woman recognized me and told me that the young man would be leading my tour. I gave her a printout of the descendancy of my family since I really don’t know if they were Loyalists.

The young man started the tour with the Loyalist history of the area. It is on the first floor. He told me that Sir John Johnson landed in Cornwall near the Civic Center on Water’s Street. So that is why I have been trying to find that plaque and I did. See my post “An Overview: Dundas, Stormont and the city of Cornwall, Ontario.

They had the most amazing map showing the lots and names along the St. Lawrence. I recorded the information on my cellphone’s voice recorder: Map dated 1786 created by a Patrick McNiff.

The docent lead me up the stairs to the 2nd floor were he began to talk about the Nor’Westers or the North West Company. So far I have avoided digging into the fur trade but I just might have to. So this was a good way to give me a shove. Here are some links for more information:

The fur trade is not new to me. I live in Washington State and it was a big part of our history. Fort Vancouver is a living history museum and it is really very well done. It makes you open your mind to a different way of life. At this museum the amount of fur pelts was not as much as was presented at Fort Vancouver. http://www.nps.gov/fova/index.htm

My tour was complete and I found a book in their gift shop for $20.00: Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, A History 1784 to 1945, by John G. Harkness, K.G. Yup, it will weigh a ton to take home but I am pleased.

I enjoyed my special tour very much and the docent did a great job. Go visit it is worth it.

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